Unicorn, Pelican, Middle-earth: OpenAI Co-founder Karpathy Seeks the Next AI Vibe Test

Andrej Karpathy had the AI model Claude Opus 5 generate a 3D scene from a paragraph of 'Lord of the Rings' in two hours, producing 5,500 lines of code for the browser. The creation cost about ten dollars, and the model animated objects independently but made errors because it could only check its own video via screenshots. For Anthropic employee Karpathy, the test shows potential for cheaply produced, individual game worlds, though he views the result as a subjective impression rather than a hard metric.

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Two Independent Proofs of the Same Crypto Problem Show How AI Is Transforming Science

Two researchers independently solved the same open problem in quantum cryptography almost simultaneously using OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra. The MIT PhD student Seyoon Ragavan and professors Prabhanjan Ananth (UC Santa Barbara) and Amit Sahai (UCLA) submitted their papers to arXiv.org just three hours apart. The case raises fundamental questions about scientific credit and the meaning of independent discovery when everyone uses the same AI model.

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